12th June 2018 Science Innovation USA
What does the farm of the future look like? Increasing automation and big data promise to revolutionise every industry, including the agricultural countryside with a tech sector that will be worth more than £136 billion globally by 2025. The UK Government recognized this early on and launched an Agri-Tech strategy in 2013 to lead on […]
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28th November 2016 Beijing
MOU Signing, witnessed by Michelle McIlveen, Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister and Holly White, Science Counsellor in British Embassy China Agriculture has dominated China’s economy for as long as its history can tell. Although its share of GDP dropped to 9% recently, Agri-Tech has become more crucial for the country to feed its 1.4 billion people […]
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13th October 2016 San Francisco, USA
UK and US delegates discuss issues in Plant Health Research during a breakout session (photo credit: Stefania Di Mauro-Nava) When our ancestors began cultivating plants and fungi for food, they brought about a massive change in how human civilizations across the globe developed. The agricultural revolution, which began in the UK, propelled us into the modern […]